What is the fuel consumption of airbus A320?

Answer 1

A320 - Accurate answerA documented 600 mile, short-haul roundtrip from London to Dusseldorf in a BA A320-100 used 4,800 kg of fuel for a total of 114 minutes aloft. 4,800kg of JetA is roughly equal to 1,590 US Gallons which gives a fuel economy of 0.377 mpg or 2.65 gal/mile or 1.65 gal/km.

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Airbus A320 - A much more simple wayAcording to the original, a random website was used that used hours and galons to figure out how much fuel the A320 used. Well, there is an easier way that only requires a small amount of information to work out:

If a plane has a maximum range of around 5,000km or 3,106.8m (A320 stats) then it must need (asuming it has a maximum payload aswell) its maximum fuel to fly that ditance.

Translation: maximum fuel divided by maximum range with full payload: fue consumption per kilometre! This is equal to around 1.268 gallons of aircraft fuel per kilometer flown.

Airbus A320 MileageI used the website: www.gbairways.com/company-details/the-fleet/Airbus-a320 to get the following assumptions:

665 gallons/hour

530 mph cruising speed

5252 gallon capacity

2321 mile range

I figure there must be some reserve required--so I guessed 1 hour flying time.

530mph divided into the range gives us a 4.4 hour flying time at cruising speed

4.4 hours X 665 gallons/hour gives us 2926 gallons used up flying

The rest of the capacity must be reserve plus the take off and landing

5252 gallons minus 2926 gallons(cruising) minus 665 gallons(reserve) leaves us with about 1661 gallons for the take off and landing

Miles per gallon for cruising ends up being 2321miles/2926 gallons which is approximately .77miles/gallon or about 1.25 gallons/mile.

So for any one trip--you need to factor in 1.25 gallons/mile plus the 1661 gallons for take off and landing.